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Treasury Budget Vote 2013/14 - Asserting of Role and Importance of Provincial Treasury

Asserting the Role and Importance of Provincial Treasury

 

Honourable Speaker, there will always be two sides to a story! To some, the current financial crisis presents challenges! To others it presents opportunities! We, as a Department and collectively as Government, are presented with both challenges and opportunities; there is no middle road.

Part of the challenge to us is to fully grasp and understand forces at play that determine the total sum of the current economic realities.  This will enable us to correctly identify which part of our systems, processes and approaches must be reformed, discarded or improved.

The Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning, Mr. Trevor Manuel put it more appropriately when he said. “Change is not to weaken functions or line departments, but to ensure that government operates differently, and to reorientate government towards delivering better services in a more integrated way.  The intention is to ensure that planning in government is interlinked with budgeting processes.”

The Northern Cape Provincial Treasury will continue to be the principal custodian of strategic capacity for meaningful resource planning, allocation and utilization across all departments.  Without playing ‘big brother role’ together with our colleagues from other departments we will continue to be at the centre of synergizing our spending priorities.  We will continue to champion the vision “to be the heartbeat of sound financial management that supports economic growth and development”. We will aggressively pursue the promotion of responsive and sustainable service delivery that is in line with Government priorities in an economical, efficient and effective manner through prudent resource management, prompt and quality services, policy and statutory compliance.

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